Philosopher
J. M. E. McTaggart
Overview
John McTaggart Ellis McTaggart (3 September 1866 – 18 January 1925) was an English idealist metaphysician. For most of his life McTaggart was a fellow and lecturer in philosophy at Trinity College, Cambridge. He was an exponent of the philosophy of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel and among the most notable of the British idealists. McTaggart is known for "The Unreality of Time" (1908), in which he argues that time is unreal. The work has been widely discussed through the 20th century and into the 21st.
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Philosophers who discussed J. M. E. McTaggart
Ideas J. M. E. McTaggart discusses
- Absolute idealism
- G. E. Moore
- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
- Philosophy
- The Unreality of Time
- Atheism
- Idealism
- Analytic philosophy
- Future
- Women's suffrage
- Immortality
- University of St Andrews
- Metaphysics
- Martin Gardner
- Henry Sidgwick
- Absolute (philosophy)
- Pacifism
- Reincarnation
- Soul
- Mysticism
- Infinite regress
- University of Oxford
- Trinity College, Cambridge
- A series and B series
Place in the tradition
Part of Analytic philosophy.